I tend to agree on these predictions – yet I also really worry about all these changes being driving by the military on the one side, and investors / money on the other.  Do we really want DARPA or Kleiner-Perkins to be in-charge of our future?

“I  think in 2045 we’re going to find that we have a very different relationship with the machines around us,” says Pam Melroy, aerospace engineer, former astronaut, and deputy director of DARPA’s Tactical Technologies Office. “I think that we will begin to see a time when we’re able to simply just talk or even press a button” to interact with a machine to get things done more intelligently, instead of using keyboards or rudimentary voice-recognition systems.”

Here’s what the world will be like in 2045, according to DARPA’s top scientists

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